What We Do

In a nutshell: we help to enhance boards and senior executives’ skills corporate governance and strategy and then assist in helping them join the dots between governance, strategy and performance.

“Corporate governance is not just about accountability. Governance has an important role to play in value creation, innovation and strategy (Van Ees; Huse; Zattoni). Governance without strategy leads to paralysis, as strategy without governance leads to recklessness"

Strategy: What are the current challenges for boards and senior executives? To be able to think strategically will enable boards and senior executives to cope better with an ever changing organisational and sector landscapes by gaining fresh perspectives and devising new approaches to familiar and unfamiliar challenges.

We deliver executive training that helps boards to enhance their strategy oversight skills and provides CEOs and their top teams with the skills, formal disciplines and practical tools to bridge the gaps between strategic plans, actions, and results.

Corporate Governance: In this new era of governance, board members must focus on both conformance and performance. We deliver executive training that helps boards to better understand their roles and responsibilities so they can become more effective and add value to the organisations they serve. The programmes also enhance their understanding of the mechanics, strategies and better practices of corporate governance and uses boardroom case studies to show how boards of directors can make a leadership difference.

By addressing real life challenges that boards in the public sector and state-owned-enterprises face, these programmes help board chairmen, individual directors, and board committees to build more productive, forward-thinking, and effective boards which then improve organisational performance.

Tools

To help boards move quickly from enhanced learning and insights to action and performance improvement, we have developed a growing collection of tools and analytics that enable board effectiveness. Three examples from our growing portfolio include:

Decision-Making Support (DMS) Tool for Boards. Boards are now being called upon to be more accountable for their decision and the thinking, reasons, and processes by which they arrive at their decisions. The DMS is a decision-making tool that helps boards of directors to think more strategically, assess multiple criteria, complex dependencies, and often conflicting decision parameters prior to exerting judgement and making the decisions.

Board Evaluation Tool (BET). Effective and relevant Boards add value to the organisations they serve and improve their organisation’s performance. It is good practice that boards evaluate both the performance of the board and of individual performance of directors once a year. The BET provides a framework and a tried and tested process for reviewing and board performance and making recommendations for improvement through a board development plan.

Board Foresight (BF). Oversight of strategic planning is a key responsibility of the board but it can be a challenge for many boards in the public sector and state-owned-enterprises. Effective boards advises executives and management in the development of strategy and then acts as both a mentor and monitor of the strategy execution. Board Foresight helps boards to develop and enhance the skill of strategy oversight, and strategic advice, and strategic dialogue.